MTAS was asked whether the City can provide for the election of the city judge in the April city election.
| Courts--Judges Home rule |
MTAS Legal Consultant Elisha Hodge was asked by the fire chief in Vonore, also designated as the code official for the city, whether he has the authority to issue citations.
| Code enforcement--Building inspection--Municipal ordinances Code enforcement--Building inspection--Personnel Code enforcement--Dirty lots Code enforcement--Personnel |
An ordinance prohibiting the keeping of junked, abandoned, dilapidated, or discarded motor vehicles inside the corporate limits of the Town.
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Ordinance to Regulate Junked Vehicles.pdf
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| Abandoned property--Vehicles Municipal ordinances |
In response to a request for assistance from Pulaski Fire Chief Jamie Ayres, MTAS conducted a review of the city’s 2020 Insurance Service Office (ISO) evaluation in preparation for an anticipated Public Protection Classification review estimated to occur in the 2024 or 2025 calendar years. MTAS reviewed Pulaski’s Public Protection Classification Summary Report, prepared by ISO dated March 2020, against the current (2012/2013) edition of the ISO Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS), and reviewed the fire protection area. This report includes recommendations based upon the observations and comparisons made during the review.
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Pulaski_ISO Review_2024.pdf
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| Fire service--Tennessee Fire--Performance measurement Fire--Operations Fire--Administration Pulaski (Tenn) |
MTAS was asked whether the city and the utility district can contract for the utility district to cut off the water of the city's delinquent sewer customers without the contract also providing for the utility district to handle the city's sewer service billing.
| Contracts Sewers Utilities--Contracts and agreements Utilities--Rates and charges Water--Rates and charges |
An agreement between the City of Blaine, Tennessee and LBCUD was entered into on September 16, 2007. This agreement allowed the city to construct a wastewater collection system to be connected to the City of Knoxville's wastewater treatment system.
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Wastewater agreement Blaine and LBCUD.pdf
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| Wastewater--Contracts Wastewater--Administration |
MTAS was asked whether a city may amend its Charter to where certain officers serve at the will of the board.
| Boards--Municipal Charters--City |
MTAS was asked what legal right do city employees have to continued employment under a newly-elected board of mayor and aldermen.
| Mayor--Aldermanic government Personnel--Dismissal Personnel--Employment |
May the election cycle be changed, so that City and County elections are held on the same days?
| City councilmember Elections Mayor--Aldermanic government |
A police department asked MTAS for guidance on how to transfer Class III weapons to a smaller, less funded police department in need of rifles. MTAS recommended several steps to ensure compliance with various federal and possibly state/local regulations.
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Germantown Transfer Class III-internal.pdf
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| Police Police--Equipment--Weapons Weapons--Laws and Regulations Germantown (Tenn) |